Over 27 years, Christopher Cahill’s practice and scholarship have ranged far and wide across business law, but at the center has been his representation of debtors, creditors, secured creditors, trustees, purchasers, and other parties in business bankruptcy cases and in pursuit of creditor remedies like receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors.

Chris has:

  • Sold U.S. bankruptcy estate assets across the United States and internationally
  • Drafted one of the first channeling motions for centralizing administration of mass tort claims (re asbestos) against related bankruptcy debtor
  • Led and litigated large-scale campaigns to avoid and recover preferential payments and fraudulent transfers in adversary proceedings on behalf of large bankruptcy estates; and has successfully defended against such causes of action as well
  • Revised or drafted anew terms and conditions for foreign-based sellers of goods into the United States, while also drafting in protections of clients to ameliorate risk should counterparties fail to pay, become insolvent, or enter insolvency proceedings
  • Has acted as outside general counsel in the United States for an international steel provider and for a domestic heat-treater of parts in the United States automobile supply chains
  • Authored and co-authored, respectively, a treatise on the Uniform Commercial Code and a treatise on remedies and rights of creditors and debtors
  • Helped found two businesses: one that failed (upon discovery of faulty business assumptions), and one that continues to succeed (DailyDAC, LLC dba Financial Poise)
  • Authored four journal articles, co-authored multiple treatise chapters as well as shorter articles on business and restructuring topics
  • Spoken hundreds of times on business law and related enterprise at conferences, on webinars, and on podcasts he hosted for Financial Poise

Chris has been admitted to practice in the courts of Illinois and in the United States District Courts of the Northern District of Illinois, Central District of Illinois, Eastern District of Michigan, Southern District of Iowa, Eastern District of Wisconsin, the District of Colorado, and the District of Delaware.

Chris served as a law clerk to Judge William R. Baird on the Ohio Ninth District Court of Appeals, where he drafted 120 opinions resolving appeals involving civil, criminal, and regulatory matters. Chris also interned for The Honorable Ralph B. Guy, of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (Ann Arbor, Michigan), where he drafted bench memoranda for several complex cases, including what became a 175-page dissent in a case in which the appellant sought habeas corpus relief from a death penalty.